Mobilizing artists: Green patriot posters, visual metaphors, and climate change activism

Environmental Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 297-314

  Cozen, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Art activism; Articulation; Environmental communication; Metaphors; Progress; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878329001     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2013.777353     Document Type: Review

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